Prachi Wagh

• 9000-ton ship at Juhu Beach encounters new problems

  Attempts to tow the 9000-ton cargo ship that's stuck near Mumbai's Juhu Beach were abandoned today after a cable meant to link the ship to a tug-boat snapped.Salvage operations began early this morning with naval helicopters dropping cables and other equipment to the MV Wisdom, which is to be towed to the Alang shipyard in Gujarat for dismantling.A...

• This man shot journalist J Dey

  Forty eight hours after he was shot - on  a crowded street in Mumbai - the city police has released a sketch of one of the four men who opened fire at J Dey, a journalist, known for his investigative reports on the underworld. Based on accounts from eyewitnesses, the sketch reveals a man about five-and-a-half-feet tall who was wearing a blue r...

• Builders shop for Mumbai's bazaars

  The Mumbai Municipality is one of the biggest land-owners in a city where real estate prices are on par with Manhattan and yet NDTV finds that it is virtually giving away its rights to land worth hundreds of crore, occupied by civic markets which has been thrown open to private developers. As many as 43 markets in Mumbai built on land worth thousan...

• For families of Indian sailors, tension worsens

  Shamsher Singh was living in Midnapore in West Bengal, but in the last two-and-a-half years he has learnt to find his way around Delhi."We met the Lok Sabha Speaker, Shipping Minister, Foreign Minister and then the Prime Minister on March 10," says the 47-year-old. "There is no minister left that we have not met. I personally went to Rahul Gandhi's...

• Mumbai father turns to Facebook to find kidnapped child

  A father in Mumbai who hasn't seen his son in nearly nine days is trying to find the five-year-old online.On Facebook, Anand Shah has uploaded photos of his son, Karnit, along with his phone number - he hopes a stranger somewhere will respond with information that could help him locate Karnit."Whoever has him, I pray they are taking care of him. Wi...

• 2G scam: Congress leader's son paid Rs 4 cr by Balwa company

  After its promoter Shahid Balwa was arrested in connection with the 2G spectrum scam, another scandal has hit telecom and real estate company DB Realty. According to documents available with an RTI activist, Dynamix, a subsidiary of DB Realty paid Rs 4 crore to Mumbai Regional Congress Committee chief Kripashankar Singh's son, Narendramohan Singh.T...

• 15 pirates caught after 12-hour battle

  Blindfolded and handcuffed, they were produced in a sort of line-up today in Mumbai. Minus their AK-47s, they looked less potent than their at-sea avatars. The 15 men, many of them Somalian, are  pirates captured over the weekend off India's coast.  There were 25 pirates originally and they trespassed into Indian waters at 10.30 am on Fri...

• Villagers protest against Jaitapur nuclear power plant

  As farmers' protests boil over in Ratnagiri, threatening to delay the 9,900 megawatt Jaitapur nuclear power plant - said to be the world's largest - a concerned Maharashtra government dispatched a Congress team to Ground Zero."A Congress committee is going to Jaitapur tomorrow. The committee will talk to locals and fishermen there. We will listen t...

• Varanasi bomb blast: Indian Mujahideen email

  Exactly 31 minutes after the blast at Varanasi killed a baby girl, an email from terror group Indian Mujahideen (IM) was sent to several media organisations, claiming responsibility for the explosion. (Also read: Varanasi blast - Mayawati, Centre trade blame)The email has been traced to Navi Mumbai - the Mujahideen hacked into an unsecured Wi-Fi co...

• Army clearance forged to corner more Mumbai land

  The naked collusion between Army officers with politicians and bureaucrats loomed 31 storeys high when the Adarsh Society scam was discovered. It suggested a new low in corruption - flats meant for war widows and defence veterans had been cornered at prices unheard of for Mumbai's pricey Colaba area.Now, it turns out that Adarsh Society was just th...

• Does Adarsh land belong to Defence?

  Even the CBI starts puncturing the Maharashtra government claim that Adarsh Society stands on the state land, documents with NDTV show the Defence claim on the plot is stronger.In 2000, when the Mumbai Collector asked the defence if it had any objection to the land being given to Adarsh, Defence Estate Officer M Gurusamy wrote back saying the land ...

• Adarsh scam: A bigger land-grab plan

  The Adarsh Housing scam has made the national headlines and cost a Chief Minister his job. The Army is investigating the role of some of its senior-most officers.Now, it seems that this scam was part of a much more elaborate plot. NDTV has learnt that the promoters of the Adarsh Housing Society were also gunning for another prime piece of defence l...

• Adarsh scam: Was this General the mastermind?

  How senior Army officers pulled rank to first sanction and then corner flats in Adarsh Society is being studied carefully by the Army now. The core of the controversy is that the building, meant for war widows and veterans, has been divided up between politicians, bureaucrats and army officers at massively discounted prices.Sources say that it's cl...

• Drunk Mumbai builder kills scooterist, races away

  Early on Wednesday morning on Mumbai's Marine Drive, yet another life was lost due to drunk-driving.Twenty six-year-old builder Sushil Kothari rammed into a scooter killing its rider Zulfikar Qureshi, a 49-year-old scrap dealer."Two people travelling on a Honda Activa. They were mowed down by a Skoda which sped away from the spot. One person died a...

• Mumbai's lost green spaces

  Mumbai is undoubtedly the most congested city in the country but it could have been very different. For a city already choking, boxed in with buildings and more on the way, things have possibly just got worse.Over 4,596 acres of land, reserved for parks, gardens, schools, libraries and parking lots could go back to its original owners, simply becau...